Bill Text: NY S08821 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8821

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the issuance of violations or tickets during certain weekend hours to residential occupants for violations of the sanitation department regulations regarding placing trash or garbage out for collection earlier than allowed under the city routing system designated hours.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2026-02-13 - SIGNED CHAP.82 [S08821 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S08821-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8821

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SUTTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  prohibiting the issuance of tickets to residential occu-
          pants for certain violations of the sanitation code

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  4  of  subdivision  c of section 16-120 of the
     2  administrative code of the city of New York, as added by  a  chapter  of
     3  the  laws  of  2025  amending the administrative code of the city of New
     4  York relating to prohibiting the  issuance  of  tickets  to  residential
     5  occupants  for certain violations of the sanitation code, as proposed in
     6  legislative bills numbers S. 8256 and A. 2693-A, is amended to  read  as
     7  follows:
     8    4.  Notwithstanding  any  provision of this subdivision or any rule of
     9  the department relating to collection to the  contrary,  the  department
    10  shall  not  issue a notice of violation, appearance ticket or summons to
    11  any owner, lessee, tenant or  occupant  of  a  residential  building  or
    12  dwelling,  nor  to  a  person who manages or controls such a building or
    13  dwelling, for a violation of [paragraph (2) of  subdivision  e  of  this
    14  section  occurring  between  the hours of] this subdivision, or any rule
    15  promulgated by the department, related exclusively to the time at  which
    16  solid  waste  or recyclable material is set out for collection, provided
    17  that such set out occurs after 3:00 p.m. on Friday [and 6:00 p.m.   on],
    18  within an area of a community district that has Saturday [as a result of
    19  placing  refuse,]  collection of solid waste or recyclable material, and
    20  the associated community board has adopted a resolution requesting early
    21  Friday set out of solid waste or  recyclable  material.  The  department
    22  shall  implement  any  community  board requests within thirty days of a
    23  resolution being adopted. Nothing in this paragraph shall  otherwise  be
    24  construed  to  limit  the  ability of the department to promulgate rules
    25  regarding the manner in which solid waste and recycling must be set  out
    26  for  department  collection [earlier than allowed under the rules of the
    27  department relating to collection by the  department  or  by  a  private

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02924-04-6

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     1  charter  that is required to be licensed or registered pursuant to chap-
     2  ter 1 of title 16-A of the code].
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the administrative code
     5  of the city of New York relating to prohibiting the issuance of  tickets
     6  to  residential occupants for certain violations of the sanitation code,
     7  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8256 and  A.  2693-A,  takes
     8  effect.